Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.